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Nearly three-quarters of Remain voters (74.1%) are feeling less confident about the future than six months ago based on what they have heard and read about negotiations to leave the EU compared to 15.4% of Leave voters. Among Leave voters, 35.4% are feeling more confident while 40.1% said their confidence levels hadn’t changed.

Support for another say is split between those who voted Remain, with 64.7% tending to agree or strongly agreeing with a second vote, and those who voted Leave, just 12.4% in favour.

Leave voters are more likely to strongly disagree that a second vote is needed (66.7%), than Remain voters are to strongly agree that one is needed (47.5%).

Four out of ten people are now less confident about the future (Image: PA)

More than half of those surveyed (53.8%) said having control over borders was more important than remaining in the Customs Union (46.2%), with 92.3% of Leave voters prioritising borders and 77.9% of Remain voters prioritising the Customs Union.

Seven in ten of those who responded to the survey (69.1%) said they did not feel there was enough information during the Referendum campaign about the whole Brexit process. This includes 49.9% of Leave voters and 85.8% of Remain voters.

When asked whether they had more or less confidence in the Government’s handling of Brexit compared to six months ago, 56.2% said they had less, 26.4% said it was the same, and just 6.7% said they had more confidence.

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Confidence has plummeted among Remain voters, with 74.7% saying they now have less confidence in the Government, but more than two-fifths of Leave voters (42.4%) are also feeling less confident.

While Leave voters are the most likely to have increased confidence in the Government’s handling of Brexit, it’s still just one in 10 of them (10.1%) who are giving the thumbs up.

Brexit negotiations have stalled

If a deal can’t be reached before the 2019 deadline, the most popular option among readers was to stay in the EU until a deal was reached, with more than two-fifths backing this (45.1%) - although support for this was split, with backing from 77.7% of Remain voters and 9.3% of Leave voters.

In terms of options that would involve leaving the EU at the deadline date, 19.7% backed stopping negotiations as well, while 20.1% said to keep negotiating. The preferred option among Leave voters for what to do at deadline day was to leave and stop negotiating (44.5%).

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Asked about how likely they were to back a ‘transition period’ of three years, involving staying in the Customs Union and with free movement if a deal was not reached by 2019, 43.3% said they were very or somewhat likely to support it, compared to 31.9% who were unlikely to support.

More than two-thirds (67.6%) of Remain voters were likely to support, while 59.7% of Leave voters were unlikely to, although Leave voters were more likely to be in favour (20.5%), than Remain voters were to be against (15%).

The study, run in partnership with Google Surveys, was completed online by 2,000 people who visited the Plymouth Herald website.